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  • #1
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #3
    Hermann Hesse
    “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #4
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #5
    Fred Rogers
    “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #6
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #7
    Mother Teresa
    “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”
    mark twain

  • #9
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #10
    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #13
    Desmond Tutu
    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
    Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

  • #14
    Desmond Tutu
    “Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.”
    Desmond Tutu

  • #15
    Rick Warren
    “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
    Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #18
    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #19
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #20
    Steven Pinker
    “Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.”
    Steven Pinker

  • #21
    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #22
    C.G. Jung
    “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #24
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Mark Twain

  • #26
    Dr. Seuss
    “Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #27
    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    Helen Keller

  • #28
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
    Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

  • #29
    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

  • #30
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #31
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.



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